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Lengthen all long letters to add M 

or N. Page 56, T. B. 

Has the man a fan? He has a fan. He 
can use his fan. 

The man can make wine. It is fun to 
make wine. This man is in the sun. He 

is a vain man. He'will go far from Home, 

It is fun to be in the sun. The sun 
will make him warm. 

A man sat on a log. The man has a 
new hoe by him. pan a boy use the new 

Oh no . the boy has a new toy hoe. 



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The Goat. 

Pat has a pet goat. He put it in a hut. 
Peter let the goat get away. ' The , gate 
was open, so the goat ran out. It pawed 
a pit in the lot. Pat called his goat 
to him. He. put his hat on its head to 
keep off the heat. Will Peter wa/tch Pat 
^h his goat? 



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of a word is T; at the end of a word 
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Joe. 

Joe is a nice boy. He is on a tub. 
He has a fat cat. He calls his cat 
Tab. Tab will eat mice. 

The cat has two ears and one nose. 
Joe will feed his cat. Do you see the 
cat on the mat? 

Joe has a cow. She is a fat cow. 
Joe calls his cow Maud. Maud will eat 
hay. Joe can milk his cow. 



Make short letters (a, b, d , i, n, 
o, t, and u) half length to add T or D. 

Page 60, T. B. 

The sun is up and it is day. The 
dew is on the new hay. 

Do you see the boat coming in from 
the sea? Six boys are in the boat. A 
man is in the boat too. He will take 
care of the boys and see that they do 
not fall out. 

If the sea get into the boat the 
boys can bail it out. Do not let the 
boat sink. How fast the boys row. Now 
they are near the land. 



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Make short letters minute to add M 
or N. Page 61, T. B. 



Ben can eat a bun. He has been 
down to the barn and has done his work 
in time to go to town. Will he ride to 
town for the mail? He likes very much 
to ride. He will be home by dinner 
time . 

I think Ben is a nice name for a 
boy. Ben is ten yaars old. He will get 
a watch for Dan. Dan will thank Ben 
very much. 



Make surface letters minute to add 
L. Page 62", T. B. 

Here is a plum tree. You may pluck 
some of the plums and put them on a 
plate and eat them. 

We will plant the seeds on the plain 
at the foot of the hill. As you plant 
your trees, place them in rows on the 
plain so that they may please you if 
you play near the place; for we must 
aim in all we do to please the eye. 

A fine plump plum is very nice. 



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Bl , at the beginning of a word is 
minute P. Page 64, T. B. 

Let us walk in the lane for this is 
a cold bleak place and the rude blast 
blows in your face. 

Do not wear your blue dress for I 
believe you will soil it in the black 
dirt. 

The pears are all ripe; they are of 
the hue of gold. Would you eat one if 
you could get it? 

The boys were told to go to the 
park to get some pears. They got up 
in a tree and ate till they were ill. 



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CI, at the beginning of a word is 
a minute hook joined below. Page 65, 

T. B. 

Cling to my arm, dear Jane, or you 
will fall on the snow and ice. 

Let me clasp your new cloth cloak, 
and you must put your fur close to 
your neck. The wind has blown your 
hood back. Let me tie it on. 

Do you see the poor lambs climb up 
that high hill? Can you hear them 

bleat? Can you hear the clink of their 
bell? The poor lambs can get a blade 
of grass, but there is some hay for 
them in the new barn. 



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Minute L, turned on the regular 
side, at the beginning of a word is 
fl, Page 65, T. B. 



Here is a flock of lambs. James 
watches them. He has a flute on which 
he plays. 



The fox and the wolf do not touch 
the lambs if James is near them. A 
fleece is the wool of one lamb. The 
flesh of the lamb is good for food. 
Some like it as well as they like beef 
or veal. Beef is the flesh of the cow 
and the ox. Veal is the flesh of the 
calf. 



Final minute L, is "Ly" or "Fly," 

whem turned on the regular side. Page 
6'2, T. B. 

Nellie lives with a nice family and 

is silly, and has her own way at all 
times. Can you see her? It is folly 
for her to be so silly. 

Her mother is dead and her father 
is so sinful. Nellie might be a use- 
ful girl. Billy is her brother, he 
loves Nellie and will do all he can to 
please her. He made Nellie a little 
boat and she sails it on the pond. Is 
not Billy a fine lad? 



SI, when coalescent is expressed 
by L turned on the S tick. 

James is not a slow boy, but he is 
slim. He can slide down the hill on 
his new sled. The hill is very slick. 
James will let Ann slide too. Ann will 
be glad to go down the hill on the 
sled with James. Ann may. sit on the 
sled and he can draw her. Ann must put 

on her silk cap if she goes out in the 

snov/. 

James has a sling too. He must not 
slay a man with his sling. 



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Sp is a hook joined above at the 
beginning of a word. Page 66, T. B. 

Spring has come, the air is mild 
and warm. The worms have left their 
homes and have come out to the fresh 
air. Do not step on them and kill 
them, for they have as much right to 
live as you have. There is space for 
them and us too in the world. 

We can get worms with a spade. 

The spider can spin a web. Do not 
speak or it may stop. 

We can run with speed and it is 
fine sport. We can splash in the water 
and have fine fun. 

We may go down to the spring and 
play in the clear water and have sport. 



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Sk and Squ are represented by a 
half circle open to the left at the 
beginning of a word. Page 66, T. B. 

A school is a place for boys and 
girls. There they go to read, sketch 
and to learn those things that will be 
of use to them when they grow up. 

Frank and Maud go to school. They 
scrape their feet at the door, and 
Frank hangs up his hat and Maud' s scarf. 
They walk with so much care that you 
scarce can hear them go to their seats. 
They do not scratch nor soil their 
seats, but Maud scrubs and scours them. 
Frank will not scream in the yard. 

Frank and Maud will skate on the 
pond when there is no school. 



St, is represented by the S and T 
ticks united. Page 67, T. B. 

Do you see the boys stand on these 
strong sticks? The sticks raise them 
so high, that they can see a great way 
off. The sticks must.be stiff and 
staunch and strong lest they might 
break and give the boys a fall. The 
boys can stalk through the stream and 
not get wet, and walk in the street and 
not, put their feet to the ground. 

We stare at them, they look so 
strange. They can get on the sticks 
from a stage, a stone, a stove or a 
s t ump . 

These boys like to get in a straight 
line and go down the street. They must 
not stay out late at night. 



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Make T, D and S with greater curva- 
ture to add W. Page 67, T. B. 

Rose is a sweet girl and dwells 
with her mother. Her mother is kind to 
her. Rose can sweep the floor and do 
many things for her mother. 

Rose went home with her uncle, and 
they went out into the yard to see the 
bees swarm. One stung her on the face 
but it did not swell much. They watch- 
ed the fish swim in the brook. 

Rose tried to catch a fish with a 
pin and a twine string. 

When she has spent the summer with 
her uncle she will go home and tell 
her mother all she has seen. 



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Strike B, V, W, X and Y nearer verti- 
cal to add S. Page 69, T. B. 

* Strike the vowels A, I and down- 
ward in the middle or at the end of a 

word to add S; make E and U nearer ver- 
tical to add S . 

Will Smith was not wise. He would 
not mind his teacher. He was worse than 
any of his school-mates, and was always 
getting into trouble. He would idle 
his time away in sin and vice. 

Will liked to visit but one can not 

visit all the time. When boys asked 

him to go and spend his time with them 
he would always say yes. 

As he grew in years he went on in 
the same way and to this day he bears a 
bad name. 



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P open to the right is n Pch or 

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Psh". Page 70, T. B. 

A dot at the end of a word is n Ing M 
Page 89, T. B. 

Ralph Weller thinks he can preach, 

but a preacher must be a good and wise 

man. All men can not be good preachers. 

Ralph has more talent for pitching hay 

than for preaching, and as he grows to 

be a man he will find this out. He was? 

raised on a farm in the west. Palph 

patches his own clothes, pushes his 

brother around in a little cart, car 
ries a pitcher of water from the spring 
for his mother, gathers the peaches, 
and is useful in many ways. 

All boys should be good and kind 
like Ralph. 



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A half circle joined angularly be- 
low in the middle or at the end of a 
word is "Ns, ance, ence or ness", and 
is enlarged for n nts or nds n , and made 
minute for n nsl or ncl, 11 and is joined 
above for the plural. Page 71, T. B. 

Ota and Nora go to school in town. 
If it is warm they take their fans. 
They use pens and pencils.. Their mamma 
will make some buns for them to take 
to school. 

When it rains the teacher sends 
them home. 

They can sing many nice tunes, and 
do not dance nor climb fences. Often 
when there is no school they will go 
to the dense woods to gather nuts. 



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Retrace to add F or V. A slight 

retrace is "fl" or M vl" .Page 102, T.B 

Olive and Amos. 

Olive and Amos do not like to go to 
school. They love to play all the 
time. Amos saves his money to buy 
novels. They try to deceive their 
parents. If they do not improve their 
time, they will not be of much use. 
They like to go down by the Muddy river 
and watch the waves as they strike the 
shore. They sometimes make houses of 
sand and build walls around them. 

Once when they were playing in the 

sand, several feet of it began to move, 
and a large pile of sand caved off and 
almost covered them. They never played 
near the sand again. 



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P on the slant of B is "pp, pb or 
bb." G on the slant of B is "gg." 
Vertical G is n tg or dg." 

Bob is digging in the sod with his 
new spade. His brother George gave 
him the spade. Bob goes to school and 
all the pupils like him, because he is 
so kind. At school, he and the other 
boys play tag. 

Bob has a dog. His dog will dig 
all day for rats and mice. He found 
his dog in the meadow when it was only 
a small pup and fed it, and took care 
of it and now it is a large dog. 

Can you spell pup backward? 



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Ch at the beginning of a word is 
minute B combined with H. 

Did you ever see a churn or a cheese 
press? Choose a choice piece of cheese 
from the chest, and you can eat a piece 
of it. Be sure my child to chew it 
well or it may choke you. 

You would do well to change your 
seat. Your aunt will chide you if you 
chafe the chart with the back of your 
chair. You must not chase the birds. 
Do you hear them chirp and sing? 

Boys often like to chat and do not 
do their chores nor chop the wood. 

It is wrong to cheat a small chap. 



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Sh at the beginning of a word is a 
tick made upward combined with H. Page 
74, T. B. 

Shall I show you a cut of the sea 
shore? The»re is not a blade of grass 
on the shore. A ship is not far off. 
A sheet on your bed and a sheet on a 
ship are not the same. 

Should the ship strike on a shoal 
or a rock it would give the men in the 
ship a great shock and they would 
shout and send forth sharp shrill 
shrieks for help. 

If you leave your home to go far 
off in a ship, shun bad company, pray 
God to sheild you from all harm. 



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Wh is a tick downward combined with 
H. Page 74, T. B. 

This is the shop of a wheel-wright . 
While one of them speaks he holds his 
axe on a block. The shop cjf the wheel- 
wright is near the wharf where ships 
float when they come in from the sea. 

While we ride out to sea, I will tell 
you of a whale which was very large. 
It is not a fish though it lives in 
the sea; for it has warm blood and the 
blood of a fish is cold. 

What man would not go in a large 
ship from our shore and brave the fierce 
storms of a far off sea to catch a 
whale. 



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Minute U is used for "Ss, sz or zz." 

Well, Susan, did you have a nice 
time in the woods? Oh yes, mamma, such 
a good time. We went to so many nice 
places . 

See, I brought some nice moss and 
grasses for little sister Bess. I 
think they will please her. 

Yes, Susan, she will laugh and clap 

her hands when she sees them. Susan 

likes her sister and says she will 
take her to the woods when she is 
older. 

Susan helps her mamma make sauce. 
She will bring the scissors and help 
her when she sews. Susan often teases 
her mamma to take her to the sea and 
mamma says she will take her next 
season. 



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Lengthen P or G to express a fol- 
lowing N, as in pain, gain, etc. 

Frank has a fine pig and he keeps 
it in a pen. The pen is very high and 
is made of pine boards. Frank likes 
flowers and he has a bed of pinks and 
pansies. He thinks a pink is much 
nicer than a pansy. 

Frank has a pun book but he does 
not gain much knowledge from it. Puns 
are not very useful to boys. 

One day while Frank was playing in 

the yard he threw a snowball through a 

window pane and broke it in pieces, the 

pane I mean. Frank was very sorry and 
told the man that he did not mean to 
break the window, and that he was will- 
ing to pay for the glass he had broken. 



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One day Rose and Nell went to walk 
in the woods. The flowers were in full 
bloom; and the birds were singing in 
the trees. 

The two children ran about for a 
great while, and then sat down to rest 
under a tree. 

Nell had her apron full of moss 
and flowers. 

While they were sitting there,, a 
squirrel fell at their feet from the 
tree above them. 

He was hurt by the fall so that he 
could not run so Rose caught him. 

"Well my little fellow" said Rose 
"you are very kind to come down 
here while we are resting. " "The 



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poor dear thing," said Nell. ,f Do you 
think it is much hurt?' 1 Oh, no; it 
will soon be well. We will take it 
home with us. "Here, Rose, put the 
little thing in my apron. The moss 
and the flowers will make a nice soft 
bed for it. Now we shall have a pet." 
When the children went home their 
mother gave the little pet some milk, 
as it was too young to eat meats. 



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The sun had set, and it was getting 
dark and the children in the field 
were still thinking only of their play. 

But when it grew darker and darker 
they were afraid, and cried, for they 
did not know the way home. 

All at once a light shone through 
the trees. At first they thought it 
was a fire; but it rose high in the air 
and they saw it was the moon. 

And, when the moon saw the children, 
she said, "Good evening, my children! 
why are you out so late!" The children 
were afraid at first, but,, when they 
saw that the moon smiled kindly at tiiem, 
they took heart, and said, "We have 
stayed too late, and we cannot find the 



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way home, for it is so dark." And they 
cried so loud that the moon was sorry 
for them, and she shone out so that 
they might find their way home. 

At the door they turned and, 
said, "Dear moon, we thank you for 
having lighted us so well," and the 
moon said, "I am glad you are safe 
home. Run, now, to your mother, for 
she is anxious about you. " 



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A young seed is like a little child, 
and the plant on which it grows is its 
mother. The plant takes care of the 
little seed. It feeds it and gives it 
a little house to grow in. That house 
is the fruit. 

The young seed and its house, the 
fruit, can not feed themselves. That 
is done by the mother plant, which by 
its roots takes food from the ground, 
and by its leaves takes other food 
from the air. ■ 

When the seed gets into good ground, 
and the weather is warm, a tiny plant 
will grow out of it. And so it goes 
on. One plant will grow up, have 
flowers, fruit and seed. From that 



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seed a like plant will grow. From the 
seed* of an apple will grow an apple 
tree. The seed of a rose will grow to 
be a r v ose bush. A grain of wheat will 
grow up to be a fine large grass. That 
grass is the noble wheat plant. 

And so with all plants. Each plant 
has its own kind of seeds; and these 
seeds will grow to be plants like 
itself. 

Very many seeds are round like the 

pea . 

No matter how small or how large a 
seed may be, under its covering lies a 
little plant asleep. It may be ever 
so small, but it is there. 



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THE ELM TREE. 
One hot day near the close of June, 
two men lay down in the shade of an 
elm tree, to get out of the rays of 
the setting sun. 

As they lay there at their ease, they 
looked up at its big branches and its 
green leaves; "An elm tree bears no 
fruit," said one of them. 

"It is quite a tree," said his 
friend, "And it seems but a poor thing, 
for it is of no use to man. " 

The elm tree was not pleased. A puff 
of wind moved its limbs, and it said, 
"Sirs, you must be blind ,as you are bad. 

"Hot and tired, you come here to 
rest in the cool shade I give; yet you 
find fault with me, as a thing that is 
of no use to man. " 

He who can see no use in those 
things which do not give food to man, 
is as blind as a poor mole. 



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FREQUENT PHRASES. 

If you will. If you can. Very 
much. On them. And then. I have done. 
As. well as you can. 

It will not be well for you. I am 
sure. And I will. So well. You will 
not be. As far as you can. As far as. 
My dear sir. It may be. It is said. 
As the case may be. To be. Out of. 
At last. It is very well. I will tell 
you. As fast as. Yes sir. I have 
been told. He was. It was. How was. 
So was. He would. If you will. As you 
can. I wish you would. 



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